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Amphibian Ark News Number 14, March 2011 The Amphibian Ark team is pleased to send you the latest edition of our e- newsletter. We hope you enjoy reading it. Just shoot me! An Amphibian Ark photography contest The Amphibian Ark Just shoot me! An Amphibian Ark photography contest Sir David Attenborough Entries for Amphibian Ark’s photography competition have been arriving almost endorses AArk’s photography every day, with just over 300 entries received to date. In this article, we introduce competition you to the judges of this competition. Read More >> Introducing the amphibian photo competition judges Sir David Attenborough endorses AArk’s photography competition Call for proposals for AArk Amphibian Ark Patron, Sir David Attenborough, recently endorsed AArk’s Seed Grant amphibian photo competition. Read what he has to say. Read More >> Conservation needs assessment for Japanese amphibian species Introducing the amphibian photo competition judges We’d like to take this opportunity to introduce our panel of six international judges Amphibian Ark has a new for our Just shoot me! amphibian photography competition. Facebook page! Read More >> Amphibian Disease Call for proposals for AArk Seed Grant Laboratory Newsletter Amphibian Ark is pleased to announce the 3rd annual call for proposals for its Seed Grant program! Green and Golden Bell Frogs Read More >> at Priam Psittaculture Centre Conservation needs assessment for Japanese Tinker Frog program update amphibian species Kevin Johnson, Taxon Officer, Amphibian Ark Paignton Zoo’s amphibian In January 2011, Asa Zoo in Hiroshima, Japan, was the host for an amphibian centre conservation needs assessment workshop, covering 62 native Japanese species. Read More >> A new frog breeding facility is underway in the Dominican Republic Amphibian Ark has a new Facebook page! AArk now has a new Facebook page, which replaces our old Facebook group Geocrinia rear for release page. program Read More >> Amphibian Conservation News research at Cajas National Amphibian Disease Laboratory Newsletter Park, Ecuador San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research San Diego Zoo's latest edition of Amphibian Disease Laboratory contains great Unique frog helps amphibian news and updates about chytrid in zoos, testing for chytrid and more... conservation efforts Read More >> New amphibian research program to begin at the Green and Golden Bell Frogs at Priam Psittaculture Horniman Museum Centre Daniel Gowland, Facility Manager, Priam Psittaculture Centre, Priam Research and Breeding An update from the Priam Research and Breeding in New South Wales, Australia recently established Association of Zoos & a new 'Frog Pod', and is currently developing husbandry protocols for establishing Aquariums and maintaining a sustainable captive population of Green and Golden Bell Frogs. Read More >> Tinker Frog program update Matt Hingley, Program Supervisor, Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary Currumbin Sanctuary, in Queensland, Australia, is working with the Critically Endangered Liem's Tinker Frog. They are developing breeding and rearing protocols that will hopefully be transferrable to more threatened species in the same genus. Sent to you courtesy of: The AArk Team Read More >> Kevin Zippel Paignton Zoo’s amphibian centre Program Director Mike Bungard, Curator of Lower Vertebrates and Invertebrates, Paignton Zoo Environmental Park Ron Gagliardo Paignton Zoo Environmental Park in the UK opened its new amphibian centre in Training Officer 2009. Rather than purchasing and installing a shipping container as an amphibian facility, they renovated an under-utilised building, which significantly decreased the Richard Gibson environmental waste that would have been generated by demolishing the building. Taxon Officer Read More >> Kevin Johnson Taxon Officer A new frog breeding facility is underway in the Communications & Development Dominican Republic Peter J. Tolson, Director of Conservation and Research, The Toledo Zoo Carlos Martinez-Rivera Taxon Officer for Latin America A major initiative for Hispaniolan frog species at risk is taking shape at the Parque Zoológico Nacional - the national zoo of the Dominican Republic. Elizabeth Townsend Read More >> Administrative Assistant Geocrinia rear for release program Kay Bradfield, Supervisor Native Species Breeding Program, Perth Zoo Would you like to support AArk's Over the last few months of 2010, Perth Zoo staff travelled to Margaret River in amphibian conservation work? the south-west of the State on several occasions to collect egg nests of two Click here to make a threatened species: the White-bellied Frog and the Orange-bellied Frog. donation! Read More >> Amphibian Conservation research at Cajas National Click here to download a pdf Park, Ecuador version of this newsletter. Carlos C. Martínez Rivera, PhD Amphibian Conservation Biologist, Philadelphia Zoo To forward your copy of this issue Twelve masters students from the Universidad Internacional Méndez Pelayo in to a friend, Click here Ecuador are working with the Philadelphia Zoo, Zoo Amaru and Cajas National Park on amphibian research projects in the Cajas National Park. Vist our Website. Read More >> If this email does not appear correctly Click Here to receive the text-only version of this Unique frog helps amphibian conservation efforts newsletter Andrew R. Gray, Curator of Herpetology, The Manchester Museum A tropical frog – the only one of its kind in the world – is providing conservationists Unsubscribe with exclusive insights into the genetic make-up of its closest endangered relatives. Read More >> Previous Editions Click here New amphibian research program to begin at the Horniman Museum James Robson, Deputy Aquarium Curator, Horniman Museum & Gardens In 2011 the aquarium at the Horniman Museum in London would like to expand its areas of aquatic research to include work with amphibians, and for this purpose a specially-designed climate controlled room has been constructed. Read More >> An update from the Association of Zoos & Aquariums Shelly Grow, Conservation Biologist, AZA The Association of Zoos and Aquariums reports on a number of projects that the Association and its members are involved in. Read More >> Just shoot me! An Amphibian Ark photography contest Entries for Amphibian Ark’s photography competition have been arriving almost every day, with just over 300 entries received to date. A few of these entries are featured here. The competition is open until April 30th, so if you haven’t got your entries in yet, start shooting! The twelve winning entries will feature in AArk’s 2012 amphibian calendar, which will be available for sale in August this year. Proceeds will be used to assist Amphibian Ark conservation programs which are saving threatened amphibians. The Amphibian Ark photo competition is open to all photographers, anywhere in the world, except for the members of the competition judging panel. You may enter as many different photos as you wish. The production of our calendars is proudly supported by Fowler Printing & Graphics, Randolph, Massachusetts. Submitting your photos All entries must be submitted using the entry form on the Amphibian Ark web site www.amphibianark.org/photocompetition/ Photos must be submitted electronically, and must be received by Amphibian Ark before April 30, 2011. Printed versions will not be accepted. Prizes The twelve best photos will be selected for use in the 2012 Amphibian Ark calendar. Additionally, amongst the twelve winning entries, one photo will also be selected as the best images in each of the categories of Youth, In the wild, and In captivity. The winning photo in each of the three competition categories will receive: A copy of Frogs of Panama by Dr. Douglas Woodhams which explores the diversity of amphibians and the impact of disease on Panamanian populations (see www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/174126). A copy of Sapos, a beautiful book from Ecuador by Santiago Ron, Martin Bustamante, Luis Coloma and Belén Mena, which uses the surreal patterns and colors of naturally beautiful amphibians in combination with and as inspiration for graphic art (www.puce.edu.ec/zoologia/sron/sapos/index.html). In addition, all twelve winning photos will each receive: A copy of the 2012 Amphibian Ark calendar, featuring the winning photos from this competition. A copy of Threatened Amphibians of the World published by the IUCN and NatureServe and edited by Simon Stuart et al. (www.lynxeds.com/product/threatened-amphibians-world). A copy of Treefrogs…prehistoric survivors with a global message - the latest book from National Geographic photographer Ted Schiffman (see www.imageartisan.com/treefrogs.html). For more information about the competition, please visit the photo competition page on the AArk web site. Return to Article Index Sir David Attenborough endorses AArk’s photography competition Amphibian Ark Patron, Sir David Attenborough, recently endorsed AArk’s amphibian photo competition. Here’s what he has to say: Frogs, toads and other amphibians are among the most beautiful creatures on the planet. They are instantly recognisable to most people, and to many, they hold a deep fascination. They occupy a wide range of land and water habitats, on every continent except in Antarctica. For many people who live in ever-expanding large cities, access to wildlife in their surrounding areas is becoming rarer and rarer. Our cities and the increasing encroachment on forests for agriculture are having a huge impact on the decline of our wildlife, including our precious amphibians. Unfortunately,
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